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Does pollution hinder urban competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Soppelsa, Maria E. - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005055
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´"Green regulation" : a quantification of regulations related to renewable energy, sustainable transport, pollution and energy efficiency between 2000 and 2022
Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S.; Atienza-Maeso, Andrés - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014460458
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Inequality and environmental sustainability
Islam, S. Nazrul - 2015
This paper synthesizes the evidence of a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental quality. It shows that inequality exerts adverse impact on environmental outcomes through several channels, including the household, community, national, and international channels. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373209
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Sustainable nations : what do aggregate indicators tell us?
Pillarisetti, Janaki Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
What is a 'sustainable nation’ and how can we identify and rank ‘sustainable nations’? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374434
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Towards a comprehensive framework of the relationships between resource footprints, quality of life and economic development
Cibulka, Stefan; Giljum, Stefan - 2019
The relationship between economic affluence, quality of life and environmental implications of production and consumption activities is a recurring issue in sustainability discussions. A number of studies examined selected relationships, but the general implications for future development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133862
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The sustainability footprint of institutional investors
Gibson, Rajna; Krüger, Philipp - 2017 - This version: 17 February 2017
We propose a novel way of measuring the equity portfolio-level environmental and social characteristics of a 13F institution (the “sustainability footprint”) and examine the relation between sustainability footprints and risk-adjusted investment performance. The analysis shows that 13F...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626640
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Analysis of the air pollution associated with household consumption in Belgium in 2014 : the case of greenhouse gas emissions : working paper for the SUSPENS research project funde...
Cooreman, Gertjan; Frère, Jean-Maurice; Lévay, Petra … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239910
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Towards a low carbon society : setting targets for a reduction of global resource use
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Krausmann, Fridolin; … - 2010
We focus on three questions: one, what have been the quantitative dynamics and the main drivers of the global use of natural resources (energy and materials) in the past century? Two, how will these trends continue over the next decades, and what would be more sustainable scenarios? In other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012877969